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Started by MV/Liberace!, June 20, 2014, 04:56:20 PM

MV/Liberace!

I've fallen behind, so let me catch up:

1) In 2007, Oklahoma made the watermelon its official state vegetable, even though it's usually considered a fruit.

2) The FBI listed Groucho Marx as "a potential threat to the life of Richard Nixon."

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on June 29, 2014, 02:41:12 PM
     Jokes about Art Linkletter's daughter go over the head of most young people.

Well, she went over a few heads in her final moments....

Seriously, though, after she died, that sanctimonious old fart placed all the blame on LSD, conveniently glossing over her history of emotional and/or psychological problems.  Thanks to his considerable popularity and media influence at the time, he deserves a lot of blame for contributing to the anti-drug hysteria for which a lot of non-violent offenders paid a big price.  Ironically, his afternoon weekday show was called, "Art Linkletter's House Party."  Schmuck.

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: eddie dean on June 29, 2014, 03:29:20 PM
Are you planning a trip to the states? ;)

Related fact:
Oral sex was agaist the law in as many as 14 states until 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled on Lawerence vs Texas.

I have been to the States; and maybe in the future I would come over again. A few on here I want to share a beer with, but I'll avoid those states where doggy style sex is illegal. I don't want to be sent to jail for 500 years if simply doing it missionary position would have been a plea bargain reducing it to 30 years, something I could have managed easily. 

jazmunda

Over 90% of Australia is dry, flat and arid. Almost three-quarters of the land cannot support agriculture in any form.

Bart Ell

Could be worse, you could be describing the women... although the agriculture point may be a good thing in that case.

Bart Ell

Further on the subject of Australian sex partners - Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

MV/Liberace!

White was considered the color of mourning in 16th-century France.

jazmunda

Quote from: Bart Ell on June 30, 2014, 06:52:41 AM
Further on the subject of Australian sex partners - Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

Great value for money on a bachelor party. Just saying.

Yorkshire pud

Quote from: jazmunda on June 30, 2014, 02:58:01 PM
Great value for money on a bachelor party. Just saying.

HD video or it's just wishful thinking.

jazmunda

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on June 30, 2014, 03:02:03 PM
HD video or it's just wishful thinking.

What happens on a bachelor party stays on a bachelor party unless you contract a venereal disease.

b_dubb

George Washington was not the first President of the United States of America

onan

There are more vacant houses in the US than there are homeless people.

jazmunda

Quote from: onan on June 30, 2014, 10:05:14 PM
There are more vacant houses in the US than there are homeless people.

Now if we allowed those homeless people to clean those houses they could afford some decent accommodation.

jazmunda

In 1977, Australian Alan Jones scored a surprise victory in the Austrian Grand Prix. Initially officials were going to play the Austrian anthem but then realised that Australia and Austria were not the same country. Unfortunately, they didn't have the Australian anthem so instead a local drunk played "Happy Birthday to You" on a trumpet.

Quote from: jazmunda on June 30, 2014, 10:12:57 PM
In 1977, Australian Alan Jones scored a surprise victory in the Austrian Grand Prix. Initially officials were going to play the Austrian anthem but then realised that Australia and Austria were not the same country. Unfortunately, they didn't have the Australian anthem so instead a local drunk played "Happy Birthday to You" on a trumpet.


No one knew the words to Waltzing Matilda?

jazmunda

Quote from: Paper*Boy on June 30, 2014, 11:02:38 PM

No one knew the words to Waltzing Matilda?

I know right. Surely the drunk Austrian local should have known that considering this next strange Aussie fact.

'Waltzing Matilda' the title of Australia's most famous song, is German for 'carrying a backpack'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda

Barkman reflex is defined as:
contraction of the ipsilateral rectus muscle in response to a stimulus applied to the skin below a nipple.

Yorkshire pud

Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helios Ophthalmic Outburst, or ADCHOO or Photic sneeze reflex

Is the reflex of sneezing because of bright sunlight, and no-one is sure why it happens, but it affects about 25% of people.

jazmunda

The longest time between two twins being born
is 87 days.

onan

Quote from: jazmunda on July 01, 2014, 04:44:47 AM
The longest time between two twins being born
is 87 days.

The longest time without sibling's fighting... 87 days

pyewacket

For those of you who listen to George:

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

MV/Liberace!

The first person to descend Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive was a woman named Annie Edson Taylor.  She did so on her 63rd birthday in 1901.

Quote from: MV on July 01, 2014, 10:46:32 AM
The first person to descend Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive was a woman named Annie Edson Taylor.  She did so on her 63rd birthday in 1901.


And drowned in her bathtub 1 week later

McPhallus

It takes 40 muscles to frown and just 4 to pull a trigger.

Tarbaby

People often sneeze When a June bug crawls into their nose. Oh, wait, that was for the "bullshit" thread.

Blinko

Tyrion's whore " Shae " from Game of Thrones is an actual whore in real life having starred in quite a few hardcore German porn films under the name Dilara.

The more you know...

eddie dean

The actor W.Earl Brown who played Dan Dority, the knife wielding henchman on  Deadwood:

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is the same actor who played Warren in, There's Something about Mary.

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I never would've guessed!

http://uproxx.com/uncategorized/2014/03/facts-deadwood/

Yorkshire pud

The average cumulus cloud weighs the same as a hundred elephants.

eddie dean

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on July 01, 2014, 02:01:48 PM
The average cumulus cloud weighs the same as a hundred elephants single Danheiser

Fixed

MrMajestik

 Anything that contains “natural and artificial strawberry flavors” also contains castoreum, a liquid extracted from beaver anal glands. That’s what gives strawberry-flavored foods their punch.

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